Phishing awareness articles teach readers to identify and avoid phishing attacks across email, SMS, voice calls, and social media. Content includes real-world phishing examples, red flags to watch for, reporting procedures, and tips for running phishing simulation campaigns.
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Welcome to the Phish Tour Nobody Asked For In March 2025, a finance employee at a mid-size manufacturing firm received a Microsoft Teams message from someone impersonating the CFO. The message included a link to a SharePoint page that looked flawless. Within 90 seconds, the employee entered their credentials. Within
In May 2025, the FBI issued a stark warning: sophisticated AI-driven phishing attacks are now targeting Gmail's 2.5 billion users with emails so convincing that even seasoned IT professionals are getting fooled. The FBI warns Gmail users of sophisticated AI-driven phishing attacks that leverage generative AI to
In May 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — a sophisticated form of fake mail — accounted for over $2.9 billion in adjusted losses in 2023 alone. That number has only grown. I've personally worked cases where a single convincing email
The Phone Call That Cost One Company $23 Million In early 2024, a finance worker at engineering firm Arup was tricked into wiring $25 million to threat actors after a deepfake video call that impersonated senior leadership. That incident made headlines worldwide. But for every deepfake video heist, there are
Your Old AIM Email Is a Bigger Threat Than You Think In December 2017, AOL officially shut down AIM — AOL Instant Messenger — after two decades as one of the internet's most iconic platforms. But here's what most people missed: the email addresses tied to those accounts
The Email That Cost MGM Resorts $100 Million In September 2023, a single social engineering attack — starting with a phone call but rooted in the same deception principles as phishing emails — led to a breach at MGM Resorts that cost the company over $100 million. The threat actors behind the
Your Employees Are Phish Food — And Threat Actors Know It In March 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its 2024 annual report showing over $16 billion in reported cybercrime losses — the highest figure ever recorded. Phishing and its variants topped the list of complaint types
In May 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — a category built almost entirely on fake emails — accounted for over $2.9 billion in adjusted losses in a single year. That figure dwarfed ransomware losses by a factor of nearly 50. And those
The Fake Invoice That Drained $1.4 Million In early 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — the category that includes PayPal phishing attacks — generated over $2.9 billion in adjusted losses in 2023 alone. That number hasn't slowed down. One
In March 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Americans lost over $12.5 billion to cybercrime in 2023 alone — and phone-based fraud, driven largely by spoofing caller techniques, remains one of the fastest-growing categories. I've watched organizations with solid email security get gutted
